NATO, Russia and the Black Sea ( Second Line of Defense )No subject could be timelier for Russian threats and the capabilities needed to ... Russia's capabilities also include the naval and A2AD capacity in the ... Black Sea and the Sea of Azov that are âinternal watersâ of Ukraine by force.

Russia needs to become less oil-dependent in next 6 years â Putin ( RT )Russia also seeks to significantly upgrade its railroads. The Baikal-Amur and Trans-Siberian railways' capacity needs to be increased by half, to 180 million tons per year, the decree said. Russia also needs to increase the capacity of railway approaches to the seaports of the Azov-Black Sea basin.

05/06/2018 17:15

Fake: Upsurge of Anti-Semitism in Ukraine ( StopFake.org )Rise in anti-Semitism and Nazism in Ukraine, Ukrainian glorification of nationalists â such were the headlines blaring from many pro-Kremlin Russian media at the end of April. These stories were generated by a letter to the US Deputy Secretary of State from 56 congressmen asking that the State ...

04/03/2018 21:10

THE RUSSIAN NAVY CONSIDERS CONTINUING ITS PERMANENT PRESENCE IN THE ... ( Maritime Herald )âThe threat of state piracy in Ukraine has already arisen: if the appropriate order is received, the Black Sea fleet, including its aviation, will begin to guarantee the safety of Russian navigation, that is, it will be present in the north-eastern part of the country. the Black Sea and in the area of the Azov basin ...

04/03/2018 05:15

Did California's Ro Khanna get duped by Russia's propaganda? ( The Hill )In Russia, if you want to discredit someone, call them a Nazi. Putin is using it to justify his war to his subjects. Russians are not particularly keen on attacking Ukraine. But if it is to free them from the yoke of Nazis, well, that's different. The reason why the Kremlin is using information war against the Azov ...

03/28/2018 20:15

Congress bans arms to Ukraine militia linked to neo-Nazis ( The Hill )âI am very pleased that the recently passed omnibus prevents the U.S. from providing arms and training assistance to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion fighting in Ukraine.â The United States has been aiding and training Ukrainian forces in their fight against Russian-backed separatists since 2014, and ...

03/06/2018 19:50

Russia might be preparing to return annexed shelf deposits to Ukraine ( 112 International (blog) )The memorandum proves that Russia has violated Ukraine's sovereign rights in the Black and Azov seas, as well as in the Kerch Strait. Since 2014, the Russian Federation has deprived Ukraine of the ability to exercise its rights of the maritime state, for its own needs, exploiting the sovereign resources ...

Trump Continues Obama-Era Saber Rattling With Russia By Arming Ukraine ( Mintpress News (blog) )The Russia-obsessed corporate media continues to peddle the narrative that Donald Trump has turned the United States into a client-state of Russia, even while he directly provokes the former Soviet Union by providing Russia's foe â Urkaine â with the largest lethal assistance to a country on its ...

01/06/2018 14:50

Russians See Rise of 'Next Hitler' in Ukraine ( TRUNEWS )It states a man who fits that bill is already rising in popularity in the country, Andriy Biletsky, who is now a member of the Ukrainian parliament after having led a âyouth brigadeâ called the Azov Battalion during the Euromaidan revolution that ousted the pro-Russian government of President Viktor ...